On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 10:37:16AM +0300, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote: > Robert Millan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Anyone knows what's the status of vga.c ? It's currently disabled in the > > build > > system. I reenabled and got it to build again (see attached patch), but it > > just displays garbage. > > > > Is it intended to be integrated with gfxterm? > > If you want to make video driver for it then and keep it up-to-date, > otherwise no. Personally I have no intention to work on it. It displays > garbage because font system has changed... and will be changed again in > future once there is vector font support. For that I think font blitter > goes away and new bitmap blitter (or old one) is used. > > Question how to scale to different display sizes hasn't been solved > either... This is the main reason for vector fonts, scaling bitmap fonts > just gets really ugly.
Ok, when I have some time I'll try making it a video driver then. In the meantime, should we remove it from CVS ? It will have to be removed anyway since video drivers don't belong in term/. -- Robert Millan <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call, if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
